(Deutsch) Bebilderung GTS

Recently, more than sixty well-known textile manufacturers demonstrated their interest in the new Global Textile Scheme (GTS). GTS has been under development for almost a year by a group of ERP system manufacturers, association experts and brand manufacturers. In a webinar lasting a good hour, members of the GTS initiative clarified the standardisation of product data transmission in various use cases. The aim is to establish automated data exchange using a standardised language along the entire textile supply chain.

By standardising information and automating business paperwork, electronic data interchange (EDI) has been saving retailers and suppliers a lot of time and money for almost forty years. The upstream sections of the supply chain, however, have so far been completely excluded from these blessings. The subtle differences in materials such as fabrics, thread, buttons and buckles appeared too diverse and individually defined. Yet it is precisely this diversity that offers enormous potential for efficiency. The greater the manual effort for an exact description, the greater the susceptibility to errors, which in the worst consequence leads to the consumer not finding the product in question.

High data quality along the entire textile chain

GTS now demonstrates that it is possible. With decades of expertise in the textile industry and the corresponding networking behind him, the initiator Andreas Schneider developed the GTS Language together with forward-looking textile manufacturers, fashion brands and major IT producers. This coded catalogue allows users to communicate in their respective mother tongues. In order to digitise this catalogue and thus create the prerequisite for automation, Schneider asked Pranke GmbH to set up a technical infrastructure. Pranke has been established as an EDI expert in the industry for decades. Within a few months, a high-performance platform was created.

Suppliers can use it to track the demand for their products live, so to speak, plan better and produce closer to demand. The customer saves on short-quantity surcharges and delivery times. He benefits from unprecedented data quality because he can import all product-describing master data into his system – if his supplier is connected to GTS.

Schneider and his colleagues were thus able to demonstrate to the webinar participants not only that GTS provides the upstream stage of the textile supply chain, after integration into the existing EDI processes, with the secure, fast, correct and cost-saving building block to digitise and automate the chain from start to finish. In fact, GTS already offers the possibility of documenting the materials used, as is increasingly demanded by politicians with a view to sustainability and the ethical use of resources, and will soon be made indispensable by law.

Meanwhile, the creators of GTS are not sitting back. Andreas Schneider and the other organisers of the webinar, Intex EDV-Software GmbH, Impuls AG, Pohl Softwear GmbH and textdata software gmbh, invite interested companies to join the initiative and participate in its further development.

Experience the Webinar “GTS” on You Tube (in German).
Or read the Peter Büdel USER STORY of exceeding expectations in the GTS eBiss project.

Pranke GmbH mainly advises suppliers and retailers within the fashion world.

Meanwhile, however, there are a considerable number of customers from other industries who successfully operate with the eBiss converter.

One example is medi Bayreuth. Since 1951, the company has been producing compression stockings and other medical products such as bandages, orthoses and orthopaedic insoles.
With around 3000 employees, the company, which is already in its third generation of family ownership, operates worldwide.

Pranke GmbH has been involved with medi with eBiss for several years. We support the company in adapting business processes at any time without disrupting operations.

Carsten Meier, IT Manager Business & Digital Solutions, medi GmbH & Co.KG comments:

“We have been working successfully with Pranke GmbH for some time now. We use the latest version of the eBiss converter.

We appreciate the reliability of eBiss. The converter can be adapted well to our modern business processes and runs stably.

When processes change, eBiss helps us to realise the necessary changes with its flexibility.

Pranke GmbH is an innovative and reliable partner.”

If you are also interested in getting to know eBiss 3 and our know-how, please do not hesitate to contact us.
We will be happy to advise you in detail and without hurry about the diverse possibilities of the flexible converter.

 

The most sustainable outfit is already hanging in the wardrobe. A phrase that has been heard frequently lately.

Of course there is some truth in this, but the fashion industry will not eliminate itself for this reason. Rather, it will go new ways, supported by digitalisation.

In an interview entitled “Megatrend Sustainable Fashion” in the Austrian magazine retail.at, Willibald Kofler, Austria head of PwC Strategy&, said:

“The Corona crisis accelerated both the informalisation and the digitalisation of the industry. Another relevant trend is the environmental and social sustainability of fashion labels and their product range. Here, the consumer side is increasingly demanding an active commitment from the entire fashion industry with regard to its ecological footprint and the improvement of working conditions in production locations. I believe that these trends – informalisation, digitalisation and sustainability – will be with us even after the Corona crisis and will lead to a transformation of the entire industry in the long run.”

In Germany, the recently enacted Supply Chain Act can only make a small contribution to a revolution in trade and production that must be viewed from an overall perspective. The new law defines the obligations of suppliers, who must now comply with minimum social and ecological standards.

In the past, there was hardly any choice when it came to sustainable labels. That has changed. Brands or e-marketplaces such as Hessnatur, Armedangels, Recolution or Greenality stand for sustainable production and declare war on low-cost mass production.

The development is not new, but it has accelerated due to the pandemic.

One thing is certain: Only with the help of digitalisation the transformation to an environmentally friendly way of production and trade can be done.

This brings us to the key competences of Pranke GmbH!
We provide you with comprehensive advice on all questions of digitalisation.

If the topic of sustainability is also hot for you, don’t hesitate to contact us.

With our eBiss converter, we are able to adapt your supply processes in such a way that valuable resources are saved.
This is not greenwashing. Your business is being made fit for the future and adapting to the new times.
There is no doubt about it: climate change has also reached the fashion industry by now.